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Scalia: A Court of One by Bruce Allen Murphy. Simon & Schuster, 2014. Cloth, 656 pp., $35.This is an unusual book. One has the feeling that the author does not really care for his subject, but, in spite of himself, Bruce Allen Murphy, the Fred Morgan Kirby...Coke and the Western Legal Tradition
Common Law. El pensamiento político y jurídico de Sir Edward Coke (Common Law. The political and juridical thought of Sir Edward Coke) by Elio A. Gallego García. Madrid: Ediciones Encuentro, 2012. Paperback, 204 pages, $24.Has the past still something to tell us? Is...The Ever-Living Progressive Constitution—From Questionable Doctrine to Article of Faith
America’s Unwritten Constitution: The Precedents and Principles We Live By By Akhil Reed Amar. Basic Books, 2012. Hardcover, 640 pages, $30. Yale Law School’s Akhil Reed Amar is a very intelligent man. He also is a man committed to a particular ideology of the...Thinking Like Edmund Burke?
The Intellectual Life of Edmund Burke: From the Sublime and Beautiful to American Independence. By David Bromwich. The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2014. Hardcover, 512 pages, $40. This first installment of a two-volume intellectual biography of Burke is...A Marvelous Tale
Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary by J. R. R. Tolkien, edited by Christopher Tolkien. Houghton Mifflin, 2014. Hardcover, 448 pages, $28. J. R. R. Tolkien’s newly published translation of Beowulf will be of interest to two overlapping groups: on the one hand,...
Very grateful to have been awarded one of this year's Richard D. McLellan Prizes. The @KirkCenter's support for my historical work on First Amendment litigation, as well the scholarship of the other honorees, including Eugene Volokh (@HooverInst), is invaluable.
Don't miss meeting and hearing from our new Free Speech Fellows in person! Along with special guests on November 19 at the National Press Club.